A full recap of the last month on the road, plus everything that came out of the van along the way. On Substack now.

Three days of work went into one Hi-Fi Lonesome song. The video, built from drone footage off the Million Dollar Highway, is embedded right in the entry. On Substack now.

4% battery, a campfire over the canyon, 26 nights since resupply, and a realization about creative infrastructure that's still working on me.

Shannon departs on the canyon's hardest backpacking route. Trail of Torture leaves new holes in the sweatpants. New Instagram for Chasing the Butter. The sense that this is my time.

The algorithm is just the latest costume. On the pressure that never gives a command, the correction that always finds its way home, and what continuity actually means.

On the two kinds of people you already know, and the singular pattern that explains the gap between them. It's not discipline. It's something simpler and harder to name.

Three essays on the gap between what the label implies and what's actually happening inside your body. Gum. Seed oils. Private equity. Systems that were never designed with you in mind.